Quote

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

E. W. Howe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
Success
Cannot
Hard
Men
Unsuccessful
Life
Finds
Realize
Realizing
Successful

More quotes by E. W. Howe

Image
It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
E. W. Howe
Image
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
E. W. Howe
Image
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
E. W. Howe
Image
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
E. W. Howe
Image
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
E. W. Howe
Image
Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.
E. W. Howe
Image
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
E. W. Howe
Image
A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
E. W. Howe
Image
Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
E. W. Howe
Image
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
E. W. Howe
Image
When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
E. W. Howe
Image
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E. W. Howe
Image
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
E. W. Howe
Image
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E. W. Howe
Image
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
E. W. Howe
Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
E. W. Howe
Image
Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.
E. W. Howe
Image
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, He is better off.
E. W. Howe
Image
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe
Image
If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
E. W. Howe